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Keyboard Stands

Anyone have any experience/recommendations on stands to hold your PC keyboard? I have a very small desk, and by the time I've clamped a steering wheel to it, or stood my Saitek joystick on it there isn't room for my Sidewinder X6 keyboard!. Looking for something that I could clamp to the edge of the desk that'll hold the keyboard to one side of the desk at a comfortable height/angle for me to reach, but I can still type on it - if that's possible?

Anyone have any experience/recommendations on stands to hold your PC keyboard? I have a very small desk, and by the time I've clamped a steering wheel to it, or stood my Saitek joystick on it there isn't room for my Sidewinder X6 keyboard!. Looking for something that I could clamp to the edge of the desk that'll hold the keyboard to one side of the desk at a comfortable height/angle for me to reach, but I can still type on it - if that's possible?

Thanks for the link Ravelle, but not really what I had in mind. Rather than something under my desk, I was thinking more of something that would clamp to the edge and then sit at an angle to one side of the desk - something like a music stand for holding sheet music, but on an articulated arm with a desk clamp on the other end of it - if that makes any sense!?

Oh, "Jerker" is a cracking name for a desk! Does it work better for viewing pr0n?

Wouldn't it be possible to knock something up using a monitor arm? You can get them with a variety of articulations and the end for holding the monitor has screw holds you could attach a plank of wood to. Just fit it upside down to how you would a monitor.

Thanks for the link Ravelle, but not really what I had in mind. Rather than something under my desk, I was thinking more of something that would clamp to the edge and then sit at an angle to one side of the desk - something like a music stand for holding sheet music, but on an articulated arm with a desk clamp on the other end of it - if that makes any sense!?

Oh, "Jerker" is a cracking name for a desk! Does it work better for viewing pr0n?

Wouldn't it be possible to knock something up using a monitor arm? You can get them with a variety of articulations and the end for holding the monitor has screw holds you could attach a plank of wood to. Just fit it upside down to how you would a monitor.

This is probably what I would do. I use these monitor mounts on my sim rig: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vertical-Mon...6051746&sr=8-7 and you can get them with longer arms... If you had a hacksaw you could cut the tube down, mount it upside-down on the desk and bolt some MDF to the VESA mount part. Tilt it 90 degrees (you might need to go a bit further and add a hinge or something to the VESA mount as I'm not sure these ones tilt the full 90 degrees actually) and that would do... You would also have to deal with the huge clamps sticking up above the desk though. Also you'd have to find a supplier for the longer arms as I can't find them. But, qualifiers aside, I reckon that would be sturdy enough to take a keyboard and the weight of your arms resting on it. Might move more than you'd want though.